Book details

  • Genre:family & relationships
  • Sub-genre:Life Stages / General
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:Resident Swans
  • Series Number:1
  • Pages:376
  • eBook ISBN:9798317826642
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317826635

Resident Swans

By Clayton Oliver

Overview

Resident Swans, is centered around the life of the main character Charleston Augustus Beric, a young black man coming of age in the early 1970s of Washinton DC. Charleston's career as a professional football player with the Cincinnati Bengals is interrupted when he suffers a traumatic knee injury. Not having foreseen such an event occurring in his life, Charleston is forced into creating changes to his circumstances causing him to become estrange from his wife, moving back in with his parents in Washington, D.C. and formulating new relationships, for better or worse. But nothing is certain in life and sometimes even the best laid plans can backfire and when a young and precocious white girl named Kateland Cutter interjects herself into Charleston's life, well let's just say things really twist and turn for Charleston.
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Description

Charleston must come to terms with what he refers to as The Pain, from his football injury. His young Rebi (Ree-Bee) patience with her husband has worn thin and when all has failed, she files for devoice. Frustration forces Charleston to leave Cincinnati, his wife and their home to return to his parents in Washinton, D.C. where he hopes he can begin to put his life back together. But his and Rebi parents are not ready to allow their children to throw away their love so easily and they conspire to get the two them back together. Not such an easy task especially with outside characters interjecting themselves into the equation. In particular a cute young white girl who has taken an interest in Charleston and seems to always be in the right place at the wrong time whenever he tries to reconcile his relationship with Rebi. This is book one in an ongoing and developing series. Resident Swans, can be a prisoner to one's own reality if one does not recognize just what and who they are.
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About The Author

Clayton has been an avid reader since his childhood where the local Pratt library gave him an escape from the mean streets of east Baltimore. After a short stint in the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division he enrolled in the Community College of Baltimore as a criminal justice major. He then completed his requirements for a B.S. degree from the University of Baltimore. Clayton enjoyed many different genres produced by many different authors until he decided to try writing for himself. His early works in the action-adventure realm included his series titled, The Pharaoh's Clan. However, his wife Monique, more a fan of dramatic stories did not care much for action-adventure. Therefore, in an attempt to carry favor with her, Clayton went to work on his next series of dramatic novels, Resident Swans.
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